the Swells Continued high all the evening & we are Compelled to form an Encampment on a Point Scercely room Sufficent for us all to lie Clear of the tide water.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As she stood there, she could hear again the ticking of the clock, and the chock of piles of books taken out of the low cupboard.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It appeared prudent to him to heighten the palisade and to flank it with a sort of blockhouse, which, if necessary, the settlers could hold against the enemy.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Cleon, perceiving the disfavour with which he was regarded for having stood in the way of the convention, now said that their informants did not speak the truth; and upon the messengers recommending them, if they did not believe them, to send some commissioners to see, Cleon himself and Theagenes were chosen by the Athenians as commissioners.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The Suez Canal half answers the Sphinx; when man has subdued the Great Desert to a sea, the solution will be complete, and the Sphinx may cast herself into it.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The same change has also taken place among those of the Britons who have been long subdued; 52 but the rest continue such as the Gauls formerly were. 12.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

"When I speak of Sir Leicester being the sole consideration, he and the family credit are one.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Scattered over this small clearing, here and there might be seen the but-end of some half-burnt hemlock tree, which had escaped the general combustion of the log heaps, and now formed a striking contrast to the white limestone rocks which showed their rounded surfaces above the meagre soil.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He hesitated, took back the sword clumsily, hesitated again, then swiftly held out his hand to M. de la Pailletine, with a smile as beautiful as his body was deformed.
— from The Blue Pavilions by Arthur Quiller-Couch

In those days eight thousand taels was a huge fortune which only one or two of the wealthiest men of the State could have afforded to give.
— from Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. (John) Macgowan

She felt that she could have afforded to be a little less brief.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

Something in the tone of this speech caused his aunts to exclaim simultaneously— "Dear boy, he has not changed one bit!"
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

Out across the railroad, where hundreds of ragged boys were riding freight cars back and forth in front of the station, the land lay flat as a table, some cactus here and there, but apparently fertile, with neither sod to break nor clearing necessary.
— from Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck

There was the same bright, little wood fire; the same clean hearth and the identical faded carpet on the floor.
— from Capitola the Madcap by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

It was a satisfaction to the girl to know that she could hear all that was being said in the other box.
— from The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

In support of this severe censure, he accuses the Irish of "despising matrimony, of being addicted to incest, of refusing to pay tithes, and of totally neglecting attendance at Church."
— from Pope Adrian IV: An Historical Sketch by Richard Raby

‘I shall be the last of my country,’ he said, ‘that shall come hither again to complain or to declare anything for the Prince’s commodity, although the occasion be never so vehement.’
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell